Auxiliary activation of the complement system and its importance for the pathophysiology of clinical conditions.

abstract：:Substantial epidemiologic data have shown an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. Traditional CV risk factors may partly contribute to CV disease in RA; however, current evidence underlines the important role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and amp...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Lauper K,Gabay C

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As predicted by the red queen hypothesis, microbial pathogens are probably the major reason for the evolution of the immune system (Paterson et al., Nature 464:275-278, 2010). In general, at the population level, i.e., for most of us, most of the time, the immune response to infection is highly effective. However, the...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Garside P,Brewer J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mucosal immune system and the microbiota in the intestinal tract have recently been shown to play a key role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Both of these can be influenced by food. Thus, we propose dietary intervention as a therapeutic option for IBD. In this review, we discuss the intera...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Witkowski M,Witkowski M,Gagliani N,Huber S

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ulcerative colitis designates an idiopathic chronic inflammatory bowel disease leading to bloody diarrhea and inflammatory alterations mostly restricted to the large intestine. Many studies continue to unravel important aspects of its etiopathogenesis, and recent pharmaceutical developments broaden the arsenal of ther...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Neurath MF,Leppkes M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by synaptic dysfunction and accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide, which are responsible for the progressive loss of memory. The mechanisms involved in neuron dysfunction in AD remain poorly understood. Recent evidence implicates th...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Cornejo VH,Hetz C

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic change nephrotic syndrome (INS), the most frequent glomerular disease in children and young adults, is characterized by heavy proteinuria and a relapsing remitting course. Although the mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology of proteinuria remain unclear, clinical and experimental observations suggest tha...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Sahali D,Sendeyo K,Mangier M,Audard V,Zhang SY,Lang P,Ollero M,Pawlak A

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung transplantation is the only therapeutic option for patients with end-stage pulmonary disorders. Despite the improvements in surgical techniques and immunosuppressive therapy, allograft function and long-term survival are limited by the development of chronic lung transplant rejection. In this review, we focus on ...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Nakajima T,Palchevsky V,Perkins DL,Belperio JA,Finn PW

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conventional perception asserts that immunology is the science of 'discrimination' between self and non-self. This concept is however no longer tenable as effector cells of the adaptive immune system are first conditioned to be tolerant to the body's own antigens, collectively known as self until now. Only then at...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Geenen V

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute inflammation, a physiologic response to protect cells from microbial infection and other noxious stimuli, is automatically terminated by endogenous anti-inflammatory and pro-resolving mediators to restore homeostatic conditions. However, if timely resolution of inflammation is failed, inflammation persists and c...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Lee HN,Na HK,Surh YJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food allergy is an increasingly prevalent disease of immune dysregulation directed to a small subset of proteins. Shared structural and functional features of allergens, such as glycosylation, lipid-binding and protease activity may provide insight into the mechanisms involved in the induction of primary Th2 immune re...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Ruiter B,Shreffler WG

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The profound alterations in the structure, cellular composition, and function of synovial tissue in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are the basis for the persistent inflammation and cumulative joint destruction that are hallmarks of this disease. In RA, the synovium develops characteristics of a tertiary lymphoid organ, wit...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Asif Amin M,Fox DA,Ruth JH

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food allergy is a harmful immune reaction driven by uncontrolled type 2 immune responses. Considerable evidence demonstrates the key roles of mast cells, IgE, and TH2 cytokines in mediating food allergy. However, this evidence provides limited insight into why only some, rather than all, food allergic individuals are ...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Shik D,Tomar S,Lee JB,Chen CY,Smith A,Wang YH

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus epidermidis is the most important member of the coagulase-negative staphylococci and one of the most abundant colonizers of human skin. While for a long time regarded as innocuous, it has been identified as the most frequent cause of device-related infections occurring in the hospital setting and is the...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Otto M

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translational research generally refers to a "bench to bedside" approach where basic science discoveries in models move to clinical trials in humans. However, a "bedside to bench to bedside" approach may be more promising with respect to clinical relevance, since it starts with a clinical observation that can serve as...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Gold SM,Voskuhl RR

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crohn's disease (CD) is characterized by chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract and represents one of the main inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) forms. The infiltration of immune cells into the mucosa and uncontrolled production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and other mediators trigger the chronic inflammat...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Schmitt H,Neufert C,Neurath MF,Atreya R

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LIGHT and herpes virus entry mediator (HVEM) comprise a ligand-receptor pair in the tumor necrosis factor superfamily. These molecules play an important role in regulating immunity, particularly in the intestinal mucosa. LIGHT also binds the lymphotoxin beta receptor, and HVEM can act as a ligand for immunoglobulin fa...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Steinberg MW,Shui JW,Ware CF,Kronenberg M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunopathology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is based on the innate and adaptive inflammatory immune responses to the chronic inhalation of cigarette smoking. In the last quarter of the century, the analysis of specimens obtained from the lower airways of COPD patients compared with those from a...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Caramori G,Casolari P,Barczyk A,Durham AL,Di Stefano A,Adcock I

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This issue of Seminars in Immunopathology is devoted to the most recent developments in our understanding of the mechanisms leading to tissue injury in autoimmune diseases. These include rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, type I diabetes, autoimmune liver diseases, inflammatory bowel diseases, autoimm...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Eilat D

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic diseases including type 2 diabetes are associated with meta-inflammation. β-Cell failure is a major component of the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. It is now well established that increased numbers of innate immune cells, cytokines, and chemokines have detrimental effects on islets in these chronic conditi...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Böni-Schnetzler M,Meier DT

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lupus erythematosus (LE) is a multifactorial autoimmune disease with clinical manifestations of differing severity. The exact pathomechanisms and interactions resulting in the inflammatory and immunological processes of this heterogeneous disease remain elusive. Approaches in the understanding of the pathomechanisms r...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Kuhn A,Wenzel J,Bijl M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergic asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the lower airways that affects millions of people worldwide. Allergic asthma is a T helper 2 cell (Th2)-mediated disease, in which Th2 cytokines interleukin (IL)-4, IL-5, and IL-13 are closely associated with the symptoms. IL-4 is needed by B cells to switch toward ...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： van Rijt L,von Richthofen H,van Ree R

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common cancer in men and seventh in women, accounting for 7 % of all cancers, and the third cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Nearly 90 to 95 % of all HCC occur in the context of known and often preventable risk factors, such as chronic viral hepatitis, alcohol a...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Aghemo A,Colombo M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunity is not static but varies with age. The immune system of a newborn infant is not "defective" or "immature." Rather, there are distinct features of innate and adaptive immunity from fetal life to adulthood, which may alter the susceptibility of newborn infants to infections compared to adults. Increased protect...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Hong M,Bertoletti A

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since life in a terrestrial environment threatens mammals continuously with desiccation, the structural, cellular, biochemical, and regulatory mechanisms that sustain permeability barrier homeostasis have justifiably comprised a major thrust of prior and recent research on epidermal barrier function. Yet, the epidermi...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Elias PM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulin G (IgG) molecules can have two completely opposing activities. They can be very potent pro-inflammatory mediators on the one hand, directing the effector functions of the innate immune system towards infected cells, tumor cells or healthy tissues in the case of autoimmune diseases. On the other hand, a ...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Böhm S,Schwab I,Lux A,Nimmerjahn F

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation that embryonic stem cells (ESCs) expressed reduced levels of major histocompatibility (MHC) class I genes, no MHC class II or costimulatory molecules suggested early on that pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) could be "immune-privileged" and were unable to induce immune reactions. However, soon it became ap...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Kadereit S,Trounson A

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) glycoprotein family, also referred to as human leukocyte antigens, present endogenous and exogenous antigens to T lymphocytes for recognition and response. These molecules play a central role in enabling the immune system to distinguish self from non-self, which is the basis ...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Ryan SO,Cobb BA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsporidia is a group of pathogens, which can pose severe risks to the immunocompromised population such as HIV-infected individuals. The expertise to diagnose these pathogens is limited and therefore their prevalence is believed to be much higher than what is currently known. In a mouse model of infections, it has...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Moretto MM,Harrow DI,Khan IA

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) lie at the heart of the innate immune system, specialised at recognising danger signals in many forms including foreign material, infection or tissue damage and initiating powerful adaptive immune and inflammatory responses. In barrier sites such as the lung, the instrumental role that DCs play a...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Cook PC,MacDonald AS

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic and relapsing inflammatory disorder of the gut. Although the precise cause of IBD remains unknown, the most accepted hypothesis of IBD pathogenesis to date is that an aberrant immune response against the gut microbiota is triggered by environmental factors in a genetically...

journal_title：Seminars in immunopathology

authors： Matsuoka K,Kanai T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00